Roots - opening credits - Alex Hayley

The opening credits to the TV series Roots, based on the book by Alex Hayley.

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Film & Animation

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• roots
• alex
• hayley
• slavery
• credits
• kunta
• kinte
• black
• negro
• nigger
• african
• american
• saga
• civil
• rights

[jettyholic]

How many here know that "Roots" was almost entirely plagiarized and the original author was paid off very well and asked by the presiding judge to not go on the talk show circuit because of the damage it would do to Black self esteem in the USA? Alex Haley was just a scam artist, its pathetic really how many people dont know the truth.

[xelanesqueHQ]

@19MisterT84 I agree X(

[xelanesqueHQ]

@HorrorMovieCollab I saw it in the 5th grade

[xgmb45]

this ALWAYS gives me the chills for some reason

[HorrorMovieCollab]

i saw this in middle school and loved it!

[Mysterwright]

I find it highly upsetting how the USA is browbeaten for its treatment of slaves and yet the same thing has happened for THOUSANDS of years in Europe. Even today, there are parts of England that still frown down upon minorities. Not to say that they have negative intent but the same ignorance we've had and are working to change isn't the same case across the planet. That's unfair also. I believe it'd go a long way to tell UK what happened once slaves here were freed in Iberian Peninsula.

[Mysterwright]

<3

[Juliaflo]

@hutch2818 I distinctly second that, this being the 35th anniversary of the one that set the standard for miniseries.

[tc030564]

omg i was 13 when this prgrame come to t.v.in 77 here in the uk & it has and had a profound affect on me all my life i now have it on dvd and have probly watched it 100 times or more in the last ten years as well as roots the next generations and "queen" what was done to black peoples was a terrable thing but thay also need to relise that slavery was practised between the defarant tribes as well long before the white man came along, not that thats and excuse mr Hailey sir thank you and R.I.P.

[pissedoff7771]

i love quincys work.my girl freinds and i put the color purple in on a friday playing it over and over until sunday evening.doing house work laughing at certain parts and crying.we marveled at how ceily and sofia over came all the negative things that were in their way.old mister got his in the end.he knew he had to make things right.these youngens out here better make things right and stop killng.in the end the most harden criminal trys to weasle their way out when caught.